Why do we need motivation?

In recent times, work loads have become different and our lifestyles have taken on a very hectic pace. Our lives seem to be always about running from one appointment to another, running around with less and less times for ourselves. Man and Women both are battling on a day to day basis with time as it seems that time is not enough in a day to go through all of the activities as individuals try to balance work, family, lifestyles and the list goes on.

Today's workplace seems to be innundated with its own issues. Gone are the days when you see only 9 - 5 shifts and gone are the days when work stops at work. With modern technologies coming up, we seem to be constantly on the go and always working while we seem to be pushing other aspects of our lives as families, friends and simple pleasures as spending time with each other encroached with our Office responsiblities. I have seen families where the husband or the wives come home, turn on the laptop and work, while trying to balance home and other responsiblities. Even a simple stop at Cafe day is seen now with more people opening up their laptops as they try to balance leisure with work.

The end result is seeing more people disillusioned with themselves, their lives and a balance that keeps going off as the perfect balance is having your personal and work lives separate but spending time with both to ensure that both aspects of lives are successful.

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It's very motivating to see the workforce acknowledging that and trying to do something about empowering their people. In today's world, MNC's have adopted the culture of putting their employees on a training spree that includes motivational trainings. Motivational trainings is becoming a trend with most major companies as when productivity becomes stagnant, the companies that are mostly higly effective find that in the CSAT's, their employees are highly disgruntled. From a Company's perspective, they can change the aspects that are affecting employees but what to do with Employee's personal problems. Director's cannot go each and every employee's homes to try and motivate them right and in reality the higher one is up on the ladder of success, the more problems they face in the home front as well once the balance is off.

Some companies have counsellors available on hand to help employees with their issues, but that does not seem to work as people are scared of confidentiality and depending on the countries that you hail from, biggest issue is most cultures are not so open with speaking about their personal issues outside of home. This is where motivational trainings come in hand. When you provide motivational trainings for your staff members, what happens is its a program that is not related to work and some of the best motivational training acutally make an individual to dig deeper into their lives to find out the issues that are bothering them and guide them on the steps to ensure that their mental health is not affected. I have been to a program when I was working at AMEX where the trainer the moment he started his training just had a calming effect on all. There were Admin staff, Directors, Managers and Head of Operations in this training but the excercises he had used to break the ice and make the group work together was so effective that there was a positive change that was noted in the specific departments that we worked in. Now keep in mind, these motivational trainings are not a one off event. They have to be held every three months or so as the human mind only pays attention to any speech for the first seven minutes, so just imagine if you were to do a training and leave it till the next year. There will be no change in any individual's performance and you will find that they are more disgruntled than ever.

Motivational trainings should be held every quarter and should be a one day training. That way for that one day, no matter what position one holds, they are off for that day and they have fun filled activities to do and these activities at the end of the day should make them go out there and make the changes. It should be the same training group that does the trainings so they can provide a temperature checks through the surveys they do to ensure that the training provided is being followed and that the result promised is delivered to the Companies that are being trained.

Empower Online is a new group that has come in the market in Trivandrum, who are having Trainers that that have acutally worked in MNC's and are recruited from different parts of the World. Their training focuses mainly on motivation as they feel that once you get the employees motivated, then different aspects such as Time Management, Call Centre Skills, e.t.c can be added on as training needs for the Organisation based on what it is that they require to empower their Workforce. This company knows the different stress that affects employees and are able to deliver to even small scale industries and enforce the good practices that come handy when dealing with day to day problems.

Motivation is required for everyone. Whether a child or an adult, we need someone to come and uplift us in our throes of depression, stress and even if one is ecstatic it never hurts to take them into a training room and convince them why they should keep remaining the way they are. With motivation, comes hope, with hope comes a new attitude, with attitude comes actions, with actions come a new approach........

It's a cycle, whether its going to be a cycle of great attitude or bad attitude, let us help empower each other with the knowledge that we have...